From the group # 6

Hi folks,

It’d be abusive to claim weeklyness to this Post, so it’ll just be “from the group” this time (no, I didn’t say “and from now on…”, even though it much sounded like it… I still have illusions ). I’m really starting to realize what I’d been hearing from so many bloggers before… It really takes time to keep this stuff up and running, and since time’s not an abundant good… well you know the story.

Anyhow, time to get back to posting something consisting of more than just an image. Even though, an image is the central part of this, and a quite amazing one at that.

So here it goes:

Coming to us from the Italian flickr user _sephy_, this has no title, a fact that doesn’t make it any less stunning:

© Sefora Delli Rocioli

Now, remember how we’re always taught you have to capture the perfect moment? Here’s some pretty solid evidence of that! Aside from being a technically irreproachable and very strong image, this has got to be as good as it gets in terms of freezing the instant. A big part of what makes photography this precious to me is the capturing of this immensely ephemere element of life that constitutes a moment. Life is full of moments, some of which we see, some of which we miss, but all of which make life worth living. Good photography holds these moments and translates them into a media for us to keep and to share, ultimately enriching the lives of all those who are lucky enough to experience it. Now this might sound very philosophical but think about it, isn’t this image the perfect example?

I found great inspiration in the work of Sefora which is why I allowed myself to get a little carried away here. This image, it’s spectacular aspect (which, don’t get me wrong, is excellent in it’s own right) held aside, says quite a lot about what photography is… about what it is to me, at least. Digging deeper, I found this to shine through more broadly across many other images in Sefora’s Portfolio. This in fact is an unsuspected advantage of this post being so late. In the time between this and the last “from the group” segment, I’ve been navigating back to _sephy_’s flickr stream quite a bit and thus found two more images that in my opinion carry this same intense sense of time and life in them. Before I get to recommending her website with her full Portfolio, let me therefore point you to these two of her newer pictures in particular:

“Colore di donna”

And this untitled work

With this done, I of course recommend you take a tour of Sefora’s full portfolio which you can find here:

www.seforadellirocioli.com

And be sure to follow her flickr stream here:

www.flickr.com/photos/_sephy_/

You should definitely take a look at that!

By the way, do you like this image as much as I have made pretty clear by now I do? Well, your image can be up there too! Here’s how it works:

1. Upload your image to flickr.

2. Enter your image into the FMPB flickr group. (find it here!)

3. Put in whatever you’d like to say about your picture as a description, or send it to fredmancosu@gmail.com with a link to the picture.

I think I can speak for all the viewers when I say that we’re thrilled to have Seforas’s work up here this week and we’d love to see yours in near future!

Coming up next on FMPB, we’ll see, but there’ll be something Portrait-ish soon, so stay tuned!

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